Interstate 5 Mystery Lights
For several years now mysterious lights have been seen in the night sky along the Interstate 5 corridor from Kettleman City to Los Banos. Witnesses have reported seeing a triangle shaped craft with a light at each point hover over the highway. The craft would fly over an overpass (it has been seen over Manning Ave) making a 90 degree bank as it would then make a steep dive as it crossed over the highway flying roughly 15’ to 20’ above traffic before making another 90 degree bank turn then descend to nearly 2’ above the ground, looking like it was about to land before ascending at nearly a 45 degree angle to start the pattern of flight all over again. Witness report that it would make the same looping pattern until they lost sight of it. They would try to get away from it as quickly as possible, afraid that the craft would crash into them when it buzzed them flying over the highway.
No red, green, or strobe light that is standard on a conventional craft has been seen. Just three bright lights are the only source of illumination from the craft. There are reports of the craft being a thin wedge shape, but this can’t be confirmed. No sound has been heard as well.
What these lights are is not certain. Sightings from as early as 2002 to as recent as August 2005 have been reported. Some speculate it is nothing more then a crop duster which would make sense since the stretch of highway cuts through agricultural land, but one has to wonder about its erratic flight patterns. One would think that the FAA would find out who this rouge pilot is before someone was hurt. But three years later and it is still spooking drivers who happen to drive along the Interstate 5 corridor between the small farm towns of Coalinga and Kettleman City.
This had been a post I had done on a blog years ago. Reason why I am reposting here is that I came across a video on YouTube that was a short clip of the same three lights described above on Interstate 5. Can't be certain, but this looks like the same craft. Judge for yourself.
I'm thinking of making an expedition to Kettleman City this summer and bring some still and video cameras and see if some evidence can be captured. If anyone else is interested let me know. You don't have to believe in UFO's, my goal is to see what is going on and to try to explain it.
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When they do tight turns (as crop dusters frequently do), what looks like a row of horizontal white lights quickly becomes a row of vertical white lights. It looks like something a normal plane doesn't do, but because it's at night and you are not seeing the plane - only its lights - so it looks very odd. On top of that, the plane is extremely low, and a casual observer isn't expecting to see that.
At the end of a run across a field, the plane will suddenly rise up and do a very tight turn. Also, I thought I did see a blinking strobe light among these lights on this video.
So anyway, my vote is that this is a crop duster plane - much as I would like to think that it's something else.
Love the new site, by the way. And a friend and I did see a UFO back in the 1970's fly over our old neighborhood in northwest Fresno, but have nothing to prove it. This was an honest-to-goodness dark triangle with dim gray – yes, "gray" (and it wasn’t foggy that night) lights.
Sometime I'll try to get you some information about the Marinette Avenue motorcycle ghost which is supposed to exist north of Exeter.
And it's been a while since I've drove on the I-5, but I don't remember any crops out there. Was just grasses, probably for cattle grazing.
But this video could well be nothing more than a crop duster spraying a crop any time of year the poster lied about the time/location knowing the history of the road.
Have you seen the other post I did? Completely different lights than these. Like I said though, you are probably right about it being a duster.
Still thanks for the kind words. Would love to hear more about the UFO and the ghost.
I've actually seen this craft twice and experienced the "craziness" of it. The first time, about 2 years ago, it was flying ridiculously low and plunging down toward oncoming traffic. It also stopped right above us, low enough to be below the powerlines. We were, too, convinced that it was a crop-duster until we saw from below that it was in the shape of a triangle. It also moved much to acrobatically to be a plane. It was able to nearly stop, flip completely over, then continue flying.
We went to Stockton this weekend and were lucky enough to see it again. This time, we saw three. One was out in the field, flipping around, but unfortunately we didn't get to catch it by the freeway. We, again, questioned whether it was a plane or not, but then it began to move again in strange patterns. I have a very brief video of it here... It's definitely worth the drive to go check it out. We concluded that it might be some "top-secret" government aircraft. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfNXXrLYFFk
Here's the very brief video we got of it. Unfortunately, the air-craft is just cruising along in the clip we got. I actually didn't know I had gotten it at all because it was so dark.
My friend recently was coming back from Las Vegas and told me he saw the same thing.
But my dad said it was a crop duster. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY...THERE WAS NO SOUND. I OPENED MY WINDOW ALL I HEARD WAS WIND FROM THE OTHER CARS.
Two aircrafts appeared on the right hand side of the road, each had three white lights (no colors or pulsing). They caught our eye because the lights were very bright (like spotlights) and they were flying very low, maybe 100 feet off the ground. Both crafts darted back and forth along the right (east) side of the freeway, and then back and forth across the freeway in front of us. We realized they were not likely airplanes based on the improbably nimble movements they were making - darting and stopping on a dime, hovering, and most disturbingly rotating in place. The final maneuver we saw them make was very shocking: after they had darted back and forth across the freeway a few times, they came to a complete stop, hovered for about 1-2 seconds, and then began slowly gliding back over the freeway to the east. As they glided east, the three lights were in a straight horizontal line. Then, while continuing a perfectly straight glide east, the lights rotated over themselves as though the craft were rotating end-over-end (or tail-over-nose if it were a plane), all the while maintaining a perfectly smooth and uninterrupted line to the east. To help you visualize this, picture the three lights in a line (horizontal), the middle light stayed put while the forward and aft lights rotated about it - all the while maintaining a perfectly smooth line of travel from left to right.
As they did this, they were probably 50 feet apart from one another, and maybe 3 times the height of an overpass we were approaching.
The last glimpse we got were the crafts gliding and flipping off into the east. The whole episode lasted about 20-30 seconds. We got off on Panoche Road and tried to drive east to follow them, but they were gone.
My buddy believes they had to be some type of gov't high-tech craft. I'm unsure of this simply because I would think it unlikely for the gov't to show off these craft 100' above the 5 Freeway. Traffic around and in front of us slowed way down, indicating that lots of people saw this. No way they were crop dusters, but if that helps you sleep at night, go with it.
I'm still so freaked out by it all. I couldn't believe it. The plane kept doing it. I thought it was going to crash after it passed us, but it just flew right back up and continued doing the same thing. We were starting to think the pilot was suicidal or something.
This happened on the I-5 about 40 miles before the 198 entrance.
Also, I remember waiting for my table at Harris Ranch restaurant nearby. The bench back rest was a huge carving of the 'winged disc'!
Also, if the thing is alien, the stock yards & high tension power lines nearby may be of interest...
Driving north on hwy 5 between los banos and coalinga, we thought a small plane was crash landing into the southbound lanes. We saw three large horizontal bright lights, no sound, no red/green navigation lights. It flew dangerously close to the tops of the moving vehicles then its lights went off and we could barely see a dark triangular shape as it flew off at a 90 degree angle only to appear again behind us, lights on again and descend on northbound traffic. Very startling. Glad I found others who have witnessed this same thing.
Driving north on hwy 5 between los banos and coalinga, we thought a small plane was crash landing into the southbound lanes. We saw three large horizontal bright lights, no sound, no red/green navigation lights. It flew dangerously close to the tops of the moving vehicles then its lights went off and we could barely see a dark triangular shape as it flew off at a 90 degree angle only to appear again behind us, lights on again and descend on northbound traffic. Very startling. Glad I found others who have witnessed this same thing.
https://youtu.be/GgFlRqKxNlQ
https://youtu.be/GgFlRqKxNlQ
Very alarming in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere on Interstate 5 in California.
What was it??
Somewhere near Bakersfield California on I-5